{"id":1167,"date":"2014-07-16T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:35:26","slug":"ectech-meetup-july-16-2014-bigdata-techfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"ECTech Meetup July 16, 2014: BigData Techfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the most recent ECTech Meetup meeting this morning was a quick breakfast techfast (and I was running late) and thoughts about big data and NoSQL databases.<\/p>\n<p>Consensus seems that everyone wants to use a big data engine, but no one can really find a reason to. \u00a0Reasons cited:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to integrate into existing applications?<\/li>\n<li>Reporting? \u00a0Still seems a need for reporting and A SQL style query language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are they for compared to relational databases?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Forays into new tech &#8212; a business has to benefit, are there benefits compared to say PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL or commercial solutions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From my standpoint, I shared that I had only worked partly on two big data engines &#8212; MarkLogic, which we used to store XML data, and Hadoop\/MapReduce &#8212; but years ago and only for a month or so. \u00a0If you count EDM servers like Documentum, Daisy or Alfresco (documents + metadata) I have worked on those extensively. \u00a0Is Lucene a type of big data engine? \u00a0I&#8217;ve worked on that for caching as well.<\/p>\n<p>Others seem to have more experience on Mongo and we all have an interest in Cassandra as leaders pop up in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Uses &#8212; caching (scalability\/speed). \u00a0Data-noncofofrmity. \u00a0taht&#8217;s about all we could come up with. \u00a0The tooling didn&#8217;t seem to quite be there from our experiences.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, all that over an egg mcnuthin&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most recent ECTech Meetup meeting this morning was a quick breakfast techfast (and I was running late) and thoughts about big data and NoSQL databases. Consensus seems that everyone wants to use a big data engine, but no one can really find a reason to. \u00a0Reasons cited: How to integrate into existing applications? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}